Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Gypsy Wife plus 2 Spinoffs

When I went to the Silver Thread Guild's quilt show in Creede a couple of months ago, I picked up Jen Kingwell's Gypsy Wife pattern. It looked like something that would be fun to make. It was! You select your own fabrics - no directions are given for that - and you plug your blocks into whichever size spaces you want. I like how there are 1 1/2" strips running vertically through the quilt that give it some continuity.

Gypsy Wife

When I finished Gypsy Wife, I thought that Jen's concept would translate easily to designing more quilts like hers, so I grabbed some graph paper and planned out one that would use up some of my orphan blocks. I'll be taking it to the longarmer's tomorrow, but thought I'd post a pic of the top.

As I was looking around on the web for sites about designing your own quilts, I saw this page, about making a crocheted blanket using different sizes of squares. I thought it would translate well to a quilt, and grabbed my bags of 1.5" strips.

I think that I can teach a class on doing this, so I'll be talking to my local shop folks tomorrow about that. Wouldn't that be fun?

2 comments:

I really like all of these quilts. I am not good at making a dozen or more of the same blocks and have often thought about just making one block from a pattern and then saving all f the different blocks to put together in a scrap quilt. These pictures give me some hope to do that.